Can someone please post some works of Nagarjuna?

by **LastLegend** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 6:37 am

Thank you in advance
Some links with PDF are fine.

by **Acchantika** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:57 am

A PDF of selected parts of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā can be found here - http://www.bergen.edu/phr/121/NagarjunaGC.pdf

Alternative, non-PDF translation is at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kfsy ... &q&f=false with some commentary, but also incomplete.

by **LastLegend** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:59 am

Thank you chief.

by **Jnana** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:20 am

Causality & Emptiness: The Wisdom of Nāgārjuna. Includes translations of the following texts:

Suhṛllekha: Letter to a Good Friend
Pratītyasamutpādahṝdayakārika: The Heart of Dependent Arising (with Pratītyasamutpādahrdayavyākhyāna)
Yuktiṣāṣṭikākārikā: Sixty Verses on Reasoning
Śūnyatāsaptati: Seventy Verses on Emptiness (with Shūnyatāsaptativrtti)

Also:

Mahāyānaviṁśikā:Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle.
Ratnāvalī: The Precious Garland.
Yuktiṣāṣṭikākārikā: Sixty Verses on Reasoning.
Lokātītastava: Hymn to [the Buddha], the World Transcendent.
Bodhicittavivaraṇa: Commentary on the Awakening Mind.

:buddha1:

by **LastLegend** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:28 am

Thank you.

by **gregkavarnos** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:41 am

A complete online version of the Mulamadhyamakakarika: Verses from the Centre with the Tibetan text that you can copy-paste from
http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Mula ... the_Centre

I'm putting together some dropbox links for you. Once they have uploaded I will post you the links in this thread.
:namaste:

by **Jnana** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:50 am

Also:

Bodhisaṃbhāra: Requisites of Enlightenment.
Vigrahavyāvartanīvṛtti: Autocommentary on the Dispeller of Disputes.

The Vigrahavyāvartanī, like the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, is difficult to follow if one doesn't know which verses represent the opponents' arguments and which verses represent Nāgārjuna's replies.

by **LastLegend** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:01 am

I am forever grateful for all your help. Thanks guys.

by **gregkavarnos** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:25 am

by **Huifeng** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:58 am

Last Legend, since you seem to me to come from an East Asian tradition, definitely worth looking into Nagarjuna on the Six Perfections at the link below. It comes from a commentary to the Perfection of Wisdom found only in Chinese. The whole thing hasn't been translated, but parts have. This text had a major influence on almost all forms of east Asian Buddhism. Definitely worth checking out. And the translations of the Bodhisaṃbhāra at this link (two of them), are of much better quality than the one linked to above. (Again, this is another text from Nagarjuna only found in Chinese.)

http://www.kalavinka.org/

~~ Huifeng

by **Terma** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:53 pm

Great selection of links, everybody. :namaste:

Is there any opinion to which is the most useful commentary to MMK? Is this the best way to approach Nagarjuna, through commentary and explanation?

There has been a lot of good advice of returning to the source of Madhyamaka (ie. the Indian texts) to avoid the differing viewpoints among the Tibetan schools.

Thanks.

Perhaps we could even have a thread based on the "not so subtle" aspects of madhyamaka; a place where some simpler questions can be asked and addressed by those who have been studying this for many years. there is already some good discussion, but perhaps a little advanced at times. After studying a little, some clarification or correction of our understanding would be invaluable.

Terma

by **gad rgyangs** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:12 pm

Terma wrote:Is there any opinion to which is the most useful commentary to MMK? Is this the best way to approach Nagarjuna, through commentary and explanation?

I think Westerhoff's book, (the fifth to the last in Greg's dropbox linx above) is probably the best basic approach to MMK. Garfield's commentary that goes with his translation is a pretty good intro too, although (as many have pointed out) a bit biased due to his relying on Tibetan, and spectifically Gelugpa, sources. The Westerhoff book is a look at the text in the the context of where it came from, from a sanskrit-enabled scholar (which is, after all, the language the MMK was written in) not how it was viewed in Tibet centuries later.

by **Will** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:15 pm

Here are the Kalavinka excerpts from several famous Nagarjuna works:

http://www.kalavinka.org/Jewels/jewels_toc.htm

by **Terma** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 4:47 pm

gad rgyangs wrote:
I think Westerhoff's book, (the fifth to the last in Greg's dropbox linx above) is probably the best basic approach to MMK.

Thanks

by **Malcolm** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:07 pm

Bocking's Nagarjuna in China is one of the clearest. Full MMK plus commentary closely related to Buddhapalita which clear identifies positions. Translation of Kumarajiva's translation.

by **gad rgyangs** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:14 pm

Namdrol wrote:Bocking's Nagarjuna in China is one of the clearest. Full MMK plus commentary closely related to Buddhapalita which clear identifies positions. Translation of Kumarajiva's translation.

prohibitively priced for all but the independently wealthy. got a pdf, or link to one?

by **Terma** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:50 pm

gad rgyangs wrote:
Namdrol wrote:Bocking's Nagarjuna in China is one of the clearest. Full MMK plus commentary closely related to Buddhapalita which clear identifies positions. Translation of Kumarajiva's translation.

prohibitively priced for all but the independently wealthy. got a pdf, or link to one?

I dug this up...

http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/928/1/uk_bl_ethos_352802_VOL1.pdf
http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/928/2/uk_bl_ethos_352802_VOL2.pdf

These the one's?

By the way, Thanks for the suggestion Namdrol.

Terma

by **Jnana** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:01 am

Terma wrote:I dug this up...

http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/928/1/uk_bl_ethos_352802_VOL1.pdf
http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/928/2/uk_bl_ethos_352802_VOL2.pdf

Good find Terma.

by **sangyey** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:51 pm

What collections (advice, reasoning, or praises) do Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle and Bodhisambahara belong? I can't find the classification for those two works on Rigpawiki http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Nagarjuna

by **sangyey** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:53 pm

In Praise of Dharmadhatu

http://www.bodhicitta.net/In%20Praise%20of%20the%20Dharmadhatu.htm

One of my favorties :thumbsup:

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